We have recently published two new papers in the Journal of Experimental Biology detailing the results of field experiments we carried out. Our goal was to monitor the behavior and internal temperatures of sea mussels (Mytilus californianus) on the shoreline, and link their recent experiences to their physiological status. There can be substantial variation in the environmental experience of mussels sitting only a few centimeters away from each other, and this project was an attempt to catalog that variation for the first time in a wave-swept rocky intertidal environment. This project involved the development of a new datalogger system (MusselTracker) … Continue Reading